Sentence examples for tax prosecution from inspiring English sources

The Justice Department has for months declined requests to provide an official who would discuss its tax prosecution policies on the record.

The case was the most prominent tax prosecution since the billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley was convicted of tax fraud in 1989.

In a separate tax prosecution, the authorities in California arrested George H. Jesson, left, and his wife, Trina, on tax evasion charges.

His trial has become the most prominent income tax prosecution since the 1989 conviction of the billionaire New York hotelier, Leona Helmsley, who went to prison for improperly billing personal expenses to her business.

Mr. Starr should have obtained Attorney General Janet Reno's approval before embarking on the tax prosecution of Mr. Hubbell, his wife, their tax lawyer and their accountant, a Justice Department lawyer wrote.

OCALA, Fla .— The most prominent tax prosecution in nearly two decades went to the jury Tuesday after defense lawyers argued that while a defendant, the actor Wesley Snipes, did in fact owe tens of millions of dollars in back taxes, interest and penalties, he had not committed a crime.

Tax prosecutions fell last year to 538, from 563 in 2002.

Separate data from the Justice Department show a long trend down in federal tax prosecutions.

This is the second in the group of four cases involving income tax prosecutions under the net worth method of proof.

Several former government lawyers and law enforcement officers who worked with him on federal tax prosecutions submitted letters on his behalf.

The department, citing United States court records, says that total federal tax prosecutions declined to 483 in 2003 from 1,431 in 1981.